Judges 8:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more.
Who acts: children · What happens: subdue, lift up · To what, where: Midian, heads
This is Judges 8:28 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 subdued | advmod |
| 2 | Midian | Midian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 subdued | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 subdued | aux:pass |
| 4 | subdued | subdue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 children | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 children | det |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 subdued | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Israel | case |
| 9 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 children | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lifted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lifted | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lifted | nsubj |
| 13 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 subdued | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 lifted | compound:prt |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heads | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lifted | obj |
| 17 | no | no | ADV | _ | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 lifted | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 subdued | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | subdue | past · passive | Midian | before the children of Israel | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lift up | past | children = child | children's heads | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The Hebrew of this verse
וַיִּכָּנַ֣ע מִדְיָ֗ן לִפְנֵי֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְלֹ֥א יָסְפ֖וּ לָשֵׂ֣את רֹאשָׁ֑ם וַתִּשְׁקֹ֥ט הָאָ֛רֶץ אַרְבָּעִ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה בִּימֵ֥י גִדְעֽוֹן׃פ
Judges 8:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more.
- And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JDG:252 of Mova's parse database.
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